"For the first time in his 33-year career Lustmord places vocals at the centre of his abyssal ambient creations, coaxing incantatory performances out of AINA SKINNES OLSEN, JARBOE (ex-SWANS), MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN (TOOL) and SORIAH. Sonically, "The Word As Power" is even more detailed, expansive and consuming than LUSTMORD's followers have come to expect, with voices, electronics, immense sub-bass, field recordings and other acoustic phenomena harnessed and arranged to stimulate feelings of dread and desolation, certainly, but also escape, renewal and rebirth." (label info)